6/27/2012

Welcome to Sin City

It was a joke, a pun, to call Singapore Sin City. It is no longer a pun and neither joke. The newspapers are splashed with news of corruptions in high places, and sex scandals. They don’t have enough space to write about them.

The clean and green and squeaky prude city is passé. The streets are dirty with litters. The trains smelt of human stench. The monks and priests and those wearing white robes are tarnished and stained.

Sin City is getting more vibrant and colourful. We have achieved as the City of happenings, fun and excitement.

For whoever miw have recommended the twin casinos, the price to pay may be the health of whoever these miv love dearly. So watch out, make no mistake that it looks as if retribution is unable to catch up with you; the reason is because the appointed moment has yet to arrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever since peepee m lee took over the helm,the line between right and wrong, moral and immoral, true and false has blurred. What is claimed by him as well as all his sycophantic followers has also become equivocal. As long as an explanation that is to his advantage, without hesitation he will go forth to claim its logic; even if such logic flaws against morality and humanity. Why do we have to put up with such stupid oppression from an ass?????

This is what happened when a society worships Lucre. The worship of Mammon is perfected by the power that be. First, you have Ministers who would not serve unless they are paid millions. Then you have cop-out policies that resort to fines if persuasion does not work. Littering - fine. Jay walking fine. Everything fine. This is a fine city.

So, we have leaders here who lead by example - money talks and talks loudly. Success is measured by your pay check. Not how much you contribute to society, the arts, the poor. No wonder so much shenanigans involving money - NKF, Ren Ci, LTA, SCDF, CNB, CHC, SPH - you name it.

Plenty of opportunity in Singapore to become your own self-made individual. There is no need to hate on wealth, unless of course you are jealous of others or are projecting your self-loathing and/ or inadequacies by shitting on other peoples' legal and morally-attained achievements.

I assume FTs who made it here are not included? And what about local born red ICs poeple who made it through selling their products and services to FTs who are here ? e.g, retailers, restauranteurs, property developers ?

redbean you are the one who don't get it. We need FTs and FWs for 2 main purposes.

1. Provide labour. Low skilled labour to do many jobs sinkies deem too low,too hard or too little for them to do, like service jobs and construction. Medium skilled labour, to complement skill sets of locals in MNCs who came from overseas. And high skilled labour, which you have no problem with, and I assume it includes Bocker and others. And of course, with the right conditions, hopefully they will sink roots to supplement our pathetic birth rate. We have no resouces, just rock, our strength is our people, ie, it is artificial, not permanent.

2. Provide a Consumer market. So that businesses has more people to sell their things to, whether you are a taxi driver, a remisier, a insurance agent, a hospital, a food retailer etc etc.. Better business, better employment. More people also makes a place more vibrant, more tourism, more business opportunities, more income.

The low skilled and high skilled have never been an issue to Sinkies. It is the half baked skilled category that is the source of contention. And this is directly related to the increasing population problem.

When we were 2m or 3m, things were manageable, congestion, inflation, prices of cars and housing etc were acceptable. Now it is more than 5m and still talking about increasing when things are breaking down, going our of hand, and tension is rising.

It does not need to go to 6m when trouble will break out. It is already showing in some areas. At every population size it is enough and also not enough. The point is where is the optimum. The look of things we have gone past that and it is diminishing returns from here onwards.

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